Step by step creating a flock of low poly birds in Blender

[@kosennn]

Even 3 years after the release of the video, it is still a masterpiece ;)

[@bardeeaaaa]

As a beginner, whenever I see a “1 minute” tutorial, I get sad because I know it’s a lot of info condensed into a. short video that I won’t be able to follow. Thank you for making an expanded, slower version

[@amirhaveryt]

"Slower" Yeah, right. Following this tutorial was near impossible without having to pause every 3 seconds.

[@jwills8822]

Very helpful video. I've not used armature before so I learned quite a bit. At first I missed that some of the bones need to be extruded in edit mode but I got there. I also had some trouble not understanding that the bone naming .L was necessary for symmetrize. Finally when I import the collection into my scene I see all the bird bodies beyond the flock - the 'source' birds, so I am having some trouble actually using them in my scene.

[@mahabbat1960]

As always, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge! Your art is so beautiful!

[@canadianconsultant]

Brilliant, Thank you , and if we uncheck "Random order" under 'Source", that will prevent birds from building on top of each other, but won't be as random though.

[@DummiesBelow]

I’d look into the NLA editor for the bird animation offsetting. You can set the base animation as an action, then through the editor, handle repeating and offsetting. I don’t know how to automate the offsetting, but if there is a way, I believe the easiest solution would be somehow through the NLA editor.

[@ichsan2248]

oh dude ts a amazing tutorial,i trying to follow yur tutorial and it work and i learned a lot from there,thank you soooooo much

[@FilmSpook]

Thanks my Friend, this is just what I was looking for!! You're a Fantastic Artist and Teacher.

[@guilhermenaco]

To add edge loop on 2:13min, select the edges and press Ctrl+R and scroll the mouse to add the edges

[@guilhermenaco]

Thanks for the tutorial! I would improve the teaching skills for the future, this way more people could watch and engage in making the tutorial

[@HolmanphotographicCoUk]

If you turn off random order in the particle sim you will loose the double birds too! Great tutorial!

[@blackswan6386]

symetrize dosent work in my case ? what did i wrong ? i hit the X in top corner, and changed it in the pop up, but nothing happend hm, can you help me ? is there a setting i need before ? thanks Sir

[@jwills8822]

You need to name your bones ending with .R for right or .L for left - it's not optional - that R or L instructs the symmetrize about the geometry. It sounds like the bone naming is just object naming but it's not, it's functional too.

[@siriusblack5984]

how to fix double bird in particle?

[@danabu-reish8743]

You don't really need to paint the bird. It doesn't make a difference for the range. It just looks like a silhouette. So if u feel like adding anything just change the base color. But still... no need to. Won't really show. Would suggest to UV project from a bird image. Gotta crunch down the time.

[@Glowbox3D]

Really great tut. Thank you so much.

[@finalmasquerade]

At last, this took me for fucking ever, lmao. Thanks so much! Very interesting tutorial 😃

[@quevaciro]

I would never known that there are modifiers for bones before this

[@skankzombaay]

Thank you for this, it's very VEry VERY helpful :)

[@RaselerKaj]

got full tutorial, love it

[@thebiggesthub]

thank you :)

[@cameronbrowne4729]

Love your tutorials, Louis! I'm a novice and have a question that maybe you can help with. Right after texture painting and I switch to material preview, all my transparent alpha I erased is visible. It is transparent in the solid viewport. Am I missing a view option or something else?

[@ldm]

Thanks! IT might be the Blend and Shadow mode under the material settings? imgur.com/a/CN0puJa

[@cameronbrowne4729]

@@ldm That was precisely it, thank you, Louis!

[@bcf_]

@@cameronbrowne4729 It's exactly what I was searching in the comments section hehe, Thanks !

[@_TetKaneda]

Great tutorial. Great contribution. You have my like Thank you so much. Greetings

[@valtito9297]

thank god for pause button following you is like following ayrton senna

[@scottlee38]

Pretty cool!

[@jessicacontext3805]

Thank you for this tutorial! I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I'm facing atm, when I try to edit one bird's animation so that they aren't the same on all of the birds, it just copies the changes I've made on to the rest of the birds so they stay synchronized? Also some of the yellow dots are stuck in place, I can't move them even though they aren't locked? Really hope someone can help me, I would appreciate it a lot

[@jayrajkharvadi]

love it

[@mindofgabe]

If anyone is having trouble extending the time of the flock flying, make sure each bird is animated for the duration you need, aswell as the movement of the sphere empty!!

[@gokuturkey]

Thank you very much for the tutorial! Is there any way to rotate birds direction manually? I tried rotating them and their constraints but still my birds are looking all in the same direction .

[@dawsonwaters1371]

Parent them to an empty

[@DalB245]

Why are you doing this? For the silhouette

[@jakub7468]

how to add this into unreal engine 5?

[@nasyafakelana7339]

how to render it ?, when i rendered it i shows the icosphere how to make it hidden ??, pls answer

[@nasyafakelana7339]

wait i have found the button thx

[@NIVEREDICAO]

7:02 my brush just doesnt work lul so frustrating

[@Phantoms3Dzone]

I tried to do this with a Hatzegopteryx Pterosaur model i made that is rigged, but all of them became SUPERSIZED when i render can anyone help?

[@bimbybrerbear1283]

when ever I try to pose my bird and rotate the arms it destroys the bird itself and contorts it, how do i fix this?

[@ldm]

Hmm, this feels like a weight map issue. The auto generated weight maps might need adjusting. This video shows a solution if you're un-familiar with the process.

[@bimbybrerbear1283]

@@ldm Thank you so much for responding, turns out it was a problem with the way I set up my armatures, and when i went back and re-did them it fixed it, and thank you for such great tutorial!

[@edwardwatson3602]

I unchecked the box of show emitter in particle settings but nothing happens.

[@jaychill372]

You might have to uncheck the original birds collection so thats hidden, it fills up the background on render if you dont

[@mindofgabe]

When I go to instance the object from the collection and delete everything but the meshes, all the bird particles play in each vertice instead of a different bird on each vertice. 26:11

[@mindofgabe]

nevermind, you later solved this by reducing the number of emissions

[@aizatnasir2195]

why i do ctrl + A it appears some menu

[@darioavalos5683]

Shift + A

[@Imran400e]

When i rendered so the ico sphere also gets render...why

[@lancelotbercotduflos6072]

I have the same issue, and don't know how to get rid of that

[@lancelotbercotduflos6072]

I have the solution if you still intersted

[@nategreyson6014]

😍😍😍😍

[@Mu5hroomcat]

Parenting with automatic weights somehow doesn't work, anyone got any tips?🤔

[@Mu5hroomcat]

Okay for anyone else who got that problem: Dublicate all bones from the one root bone; stay in edit mode, select all and parent everything to the root bone. Idk if I'm the only one who was dumb enough to spend a solid 30 min on that lol🤣

[@Art-dt6jr]

Channel logo not change too

[@finalmasquerade]

what if we don't have the UV pack master thing?? :L

[@ldm]

In the UV window there's a "UV > Pack Islands" menu option, it does the same thing, just not as well. I should have used that for this tutorial, sorry.

[@finalmasquerade]

@@ldm hey! That’s okay. Thanks so much, no need to apologise! I think I ended up googling it, at the time, haha. Appreciate the tutorial! 😊

[@ngunesguven]

symmetrize doesn't work

[@M_Lopez_3D_Artist]

i figured it out u have to check the rotation on the bones to be not in negative numbers

[@cgnico3978]

Louis du Mont... Maybe you are french?